Janelle Monae

never seen or heard anything quite like the hype that's been going on all over the web since last night's BBC showing of her performance at Glastonbury. just insane. she was trending on UK twitter for a good 6 or 7 hours after.

Just when it seemed as though wunderkind Bruno Mars -– he of the coy, boyish charm and the golden songwriting pen and the voice you could just pour over ice cream –- could do no wrong, well, then he does.

He picks Janelle Monáe as his partner on the “Hooligans in Wundaland Tour,” leaving many of us out there in the undersold 1stBank Center crowd Sunday night wondering, “What just happened?”

Mars has Cee Lo Green on speed dial following their brilliant collaboration on “F**k You,” and he even manages to make B.o.B. look like a genius (“Nothin’ on You” was a Mars vocal highlight Sunday night, even without the Atlanta rapper’s silly but infectious rhymes all over it).

But Monáe and her amateur performance-art hour was so tedious and painful, I don’t know what even Mars could have done to fix it. Were those cape-clad dancers dressed as “Star Wars” Ewoks or extras from the “Scream” franchise? The “Alice in Wonderland” backup singers made no sense with the rest of the cast’s “Matrix” saddle shoes and Monáe’s Grace Jones sunglasses. And the song choices could not have been more jangling. We went from Nat King Cole’s “Smile” to “I Want You Back” from the Jackson 5 to Monáe’s own funkadelic “Tightrope.”

Give the Grammy award-winning singer props for the groovin’ 11-piece band, and during “I Want You Back,” there were moments it sounded as though Janet and Michael were in the house. But those dance moves have got to go –- everyone lying down on the stage as legitimate choreography went out in, um, 1978.

“I started falling in love with the Drake album and the Kanye album, and I thought, that’s really theatrical, and it’s hip-hop music, and I make really theatrical music,” Mr. Ruess said. “Why can’t I add a hip-hop element?” He said his idea was “to take that ’70s songwriting style but modernize it a little bit more.”

The spike in popularity is even more rare for an alternative rock outfit: It has been more than a decade since a rock band had a song enter the pop chart in the top spot. (Nickelback did it in December 2001 with “How You Remind Me.”)

wow NYT really badly mangled the factoid that fun. are the first rock band to hit #1 with their first Hot 100 hit

hilarious that his idea of HARNESSING THE POWER OF HIP HOP is to hunt down the token white guy on Kanye's production team

Its about a girl losing her virginity. The peeling of the apple is the foreplay, but then when the moment comes she gets nervous. And when she cuts herself thats the cherry popping and when she puts the blood on﻿ her lips it shows shes not an innocent little girl anymore. Look at her facial expressionsFootballFanatic141 16 hours ago 63

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